CSE 305 January 2017

Computer Architecture

Welcome to the course webpage for CSE 305: Computer Architecture course at CSE, BUET. Here necessary materials, evaluations, class lectures, class schedules, and other important information will be posted from time to time. That is the first time I am taking a course the second time and therefore I am super excited to see how things go this year. If you have registered for the course, CSE 305, we hope you will really enjoy studying them :) .

Prerequisite

CSE 205 Digital Logic Design

Syllabus

• Computer Abstractions and Technology

  • Eight great ideas in computer architecture

  • Measuring computer performance

• Instructions: Language of the Computer

  • Instruction set architecture

  • Design principles behind instruction set architecture

  • Addressing modes

• Arithmetic for Computers

  • Addition and subtraction along with overflow conditions

  • Multiplication and division

  • Floating-point numbers

• Datapath and Control Unit Design

• Hazards

• Exceptions

• Pipeline: pipelined datapath and control, superscalar and dynamic pipelining

• Memory organization: cache, virtual memory, channels

• DMA and Interrupts

• Buses

• Multiprocessors: types of multiprocessors, performance, single bus multiprocessors, multiprocessors connected by network, clusters

Instructor

• Tanvir Ahmed Khan | takhandipu at gmail dot com | Details